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This day in history

2002, 2017, 2021.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readFeb 23, 2022

#20yrsago RIP, Chuck Jones https://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/22/chuck.jones.obit/

#20yrsago A bad fall while installing a WiFi antenna https://people.well.com/user/doctorow/rob.txt

#5yrsago In which Laurie Penny comprehensively proves that she has Yiannopoulos’s number https://psmag.com/news/on-the-milo-bus-with-the-lost-boys-of-americas-new-right#.8061cp4jc

#5yrsago Lawsuit forces DoJ to admit that Obama administration sneakily killed transparency bill https://freedom.press/news/new-documents-show-the-obama-admin-aggressively-lobbied-to-kill-transparency-reform-in-congress/

#5yrsago After a century of resisting monopolies, Democrats became the party of finance capitalism and it cost them the election https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/antimonopoly-big-business/514358/

#5yrsago Found at a thrift shop: the last record of a doomed Apple DRM effort from 1979 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9vexSPkhkh-UWVrREI4SXB4TGc/view?resourcekey=0-unBUEHLvITiqLmJK8LI-SQ

#1yrago German covid coinages: Schadenfreude fur CoronaFußgruß https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/23/acceptable-losses/#Zeitgeist

#1yrago Malcolm X’s true killers: NYPD deathbed confessions confirms “conspiracy theory”…

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

Written by Cory Doctorow

Writer, blogger, activist. Blog: https://pluralistic.net; Mailing list: https://pluralistic.net/plura-list; Mastodon: @pluralistic@mamot.fr

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